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UNITED STATES PATENT QEETCE.

CHARLES PIERS, JR., OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

POCKET-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 578,498, dated March 9, 1897'.

Application led March 12, 1896.

To a/ZZ whom ama/y concern:

p Be it known that I, CHARLES PIERS, Jr., of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in pocket-books; and the object of myinvention is to improve the construction of ordinary ladies pocket-books and make them in such a way that a handkerchief can be conveniently carried in the pocket-book, and also to make the pocket-book so that the handkerchief can be readilyinserted and quickly and easily removed.

Another object of my invention is to provide means for holding the handkerchief without perceptibly increasing the cost of the pocket-book, and to make the improved attachments so that the durability and appearance of the pocket-book will not be injured, and, further, to construct it so that the handkerchief can be held in a way to look nicely and preserve the good appearance and shape of the pocket-book.

To these ends my invention consists of a pocket-book the construction and arrangement of which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar gures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pocketbook embodying my invention, showing a handkerchief in position therein. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the open pocket-book. Fig. 3 is a broken plan view showing the arrangement of the retaining-spring. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of the retaining-spring. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a modified form of retaining-spring. Fig. 6 is aview of another modification of the spring, and Fig. 7 is a detail view showing how either form of spring may be made very iiexible.V

The pocket-book 10 may be made in any usual style and of any'suitable material, the pocket -book as illustrated comprising the usual oppositely-arranged parts 11 and 12, one serving as a card-case and the other as a 'money-receptacle, and the part 12, instead of Serial No. 582,925. (No model.)

connecting at its end edges with the edges of the pocket-book bodyin the usual manner, is separated from the body by a receptacle 13, which is open at the ends, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, so that a handkerchief 14 may be held in the said receptacle with its ends protruding from the ends of the pocket-book. This arrangement leaves the receptacle 12 hinged at one edge, as shown at 122t in Figf2.

In order that the part 12 of the pocket-book may be held in its proper relative position and the shape of the pocket-book retained, a spring 15 is used which is of a general U shape, so that its central portion may extend along one edge of the part 12 and its arms eX- tend near the ends of the part 12, as shown in Fig. 3. This spring, besides holding the pocket-book in shape, serves as a retainingspring to prevent the loss of the handkerchief, and to this end the arms of the spring are doubled, as shown at 16, and returned on themselves, as shown at 17 in Fig. 4, thus leaving a space between the two members of the arms in which the handkerchief may be held.

The members 17 are fastened beneath the lining of the pocket-book back, as shown in Fig. 2, andthe body portion of the spring is held beneath the lining on the back of the part 12 of the pocket-book, so that no part of the spring is visible when the pocket-"book is completed. The spring is fastened in any convenient way, one edgebeing preferably riveted or otherwise secured to the clasp 18 of the money-receptacle or part 12. The tension of the spring is such as to hold its free edges, that is, the members 17 and the body part, together; but the spring is sufficiently flexible to permit the separation of these members in order that the handkerchief may be readily inserted.

When the handkerchief is to be placed in position, it may be simply drawn in between the free edge ofthe money-receptacle 12 and the body or back of the pocket-book. The money-receptacle swings on the hinge 12a, and when the handkerchief is inserted the spring 15 serves to hold it in place. l

Instead of the spring l5 the spring 19 (shown in Fig. 5) may be used, this being doubled in the center, as shown at 20, and in this latter case two springs are used, being placed at op- IOO posite ends of the receptacle 12 in the position occupied by the arms of the spring 15 in Fig. 3, and the handkerchief is held between the free ends or two members of the spring. n

In Fig. 6 I have shown another modification in which the spring 21 is used; but this is substantially like the spring 19, the only difference being that one of the free ends of the spring has an offset 22 to enable it to get a better grip on the handkerchief and to further assistin holding the pocket-book in shape.

In Fig. 7 I have shown a spring 23 connected with the clasp 18, which spring corresponds to the springs 19 21 or the arms of the spi-in g 15, and the spring is weakened by providing it with a slot 24, which thus renders it more iexible.

It will be understood that the pocket-book can be made without springs by stiffening the linings and using material which will hold the pocket-book in shape and have a tension to hold the part 12 against the pocketbook back.

It will also be understood that the pocketbook may be open at one end only Without affecting the principle of the invention, and that the open-ended receptacle may be arranged on either side of the pocket-book, that is, on the side having the part 11 or 12.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As' an improv-ed article oi manufacture, a combination pocket-book having the usual change-receptacles, an eXtra pocket open on all sides except the back whereby the pocket can receive an article longer than the pocketbook, and aspring having opposite connected parts, one part of the spring being secured to the back and the other part to the changepocket whereby the open pocket is closed,substantially as described.

CHARLES PIERS, JR.

Vitnesses:

WARREN B. HUTcHINsoN, BERTHA DEYo. 

